Bonnie Kagan
115 East 92nd Street, New York, NY 10128
212 518-8690
kaganfineart@gmail.com
FINE ART APPRAISER & CONSULTANT
Kagan Fine Art offers our clients over 20 years of experience in the art market.
Bonnie Kagan is an art appraiser,art advisor and consultant, and has broad and extensive experience as a gallery owner, and gallery director.
Kagan Fine Art specializes in appraising art from estates and preparing the art to either be sold into the secondary market, or to be preserved and allocated in private collections, or donated.
This preparation includes not only appraising, but the condition reports, and restoration, provenance and authentication research, as well as advising on selling into the best markets, or assisting with a sale. Note: the appraiser cannot be the one to broker the sale.
Certified appraisal reports for:
* insurance scheduling
* insurance, damage and loss
* estate valuation
* reports prepared for the IRS for charitable donations for tax credits
* divorce and equitable distribution
* legal disputes
* Fair Market Value for re sale
Special knowledge:
* American 19th Century
* American 20th Century: Post War and Contemporary, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop
* French Impressionism
* American Impressionism
* Modernism
(all the above for paintings, drawings, sculpture, original prints and photographs)
Bonnie Kagan Gallery, Inc.1984, in Toronto represented contemporary artists and provided large scale installations for corporate clients.
Since establishing the business in New York, Kagan Fine Art has worked with Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, worked as the Director at Hubert Gallery, served as Art Advisor to the New York Jets, and continues to serve clients from across the country.
Education and training:
* York University, Toronto, Canada, Fine Art
* George Washington University, Washington, DC: Appraisal Studies in Fine & Decorative Arts, Certificate program,
* George Washington University, Washington, DC. History of Photography
* Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, American Society of Appraisers
* Fundraising for the Arts, New York University
More professional training:
Appraisers Association of America: Estates and Equitable Distribution, and Advanced Issues: Original Prints
American Society of Appraisers: the IRS: Tax Policy and Legal Changes, Washington, DC, and Advanced Report Writing
Memberships:
Appraisers Association of American, New York, NY
American Society of Appraisers (Candidate), New York Chapter
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